Suffix attached to nouns to name specific diseases or medical conditions. Common in medical terminology and everyday disease names.
Diabetes is deeply related to lifestyle habits.
彼は心臓病で入院した。
He was hospitalized for heart disease.
The kanji 病 has been used historically to denote illness. As a suffix, it derives from its use in compound words to specify types of diseases.
intractable disease; serious illness
patient's condition; state of a disease; pathology
sexually transmitted disease; STD; venereal disease
pathological; morbid; unhealthy; abnormal
chronic disease; chronic illness; old complaint · bad habit; intractable habit
nursing; caring for a sick person
pathology
epidemic; plague; pestilence
hospital room; sickroom; ward
fighting an illness; struggling with a disease
name of a disease; disease name
sickbed; hospital bed
lesion; pathological change
death from illness; dying of disease
weak constitution; sickly; feeble
condition of a patient; state of a disease · pathological state; pathology
onset of illness; falling ill
rabies
Minamata disease
injuries and sickness; wounds and illness
feigned illness; pretending to be sick